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Charlie Banacos: Recollections of a Legend
by Mike Brannon
"You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone" --Joni Mitchell “There are a dozen ways to hit a key." --Charlie Banacos How do you say goodbye to someone who truly changed you; someone who you know caused you to be a better person just for having known them? How do you say goodbye ...
Mike Longo Trio: Sting Like a Bee
by Jack Bowers
Mike Longo, who studied piano with Oscar Peterson and served for a number of years as Dizzy Gillespie's pianist and music director, brings that experience and more to Sting Like a Bee, the follow-up to his well-received trio session from 2007, Float Like a Butterfly (Consolidated Artists Productions). While there's a different backup crew this time, ...
Buenos Aires Jazz Festival 2009: Growing Into a Tradition
by R.J. DeLuke
Buenos Aires International Jazz Festival '09, Part 1 December 3-8, 2009In the land of the tango, Argentina--specifically the stylish city of Buenos Aires--there is a movement afoot to bring great jazz to the land, expand the audience for the music, and increase public exposure for the growing number of outstanding jazz musicians in ...
Back in the Saddle Again...Sort Of
by Jack Bowers
After an absence of more than 45 years, your correspondent returned to the airwaves on December 15, 2009 co-hosting a three-hour program of big-band holiday music on KSFR-FM in Santa Fe, NM. I was invited to share a part of my CD library by Arlen Asher, one of New Mexico's finest jazz musicians, who has been ...
Resonance Big Band: Plays Tribute to Oscar Peterson
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Resonance Big Band's Plays Tribute to Oscar Peterson is a true tribute. Here is an artistic offering made in reverential regard to the great pianist, Oscar Peterson. It is something fresh and inviting and eminently deserving of high praise--for George Klabin, who conceived of it, and a magnificent big band that brings the spirit of Peterson ...
Mike Longo Trio: Sting Like A Bee
by Edward Blanco
Pianist Mike Longo has a couple of things in common with legendary heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali: first, they both employed the same phrase throughout their careers--"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"--and second,, they both deliver quite a punch, Ali with his fists and Longo on the keys. Sting Like a Bee--dedicated to Longo's father, ...
Oscar Peterson: The Complete Clef/Mercury Studio Sessions of the Oscar Peterson Trio (1951-1953)
Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Turtle Neck; It's Easy to Remember; Pooper; Love for Sale; Until the Real Thing Comes Along; You Go To My Head; They Can't Take That Away From Me; There's A Small Hotel; You Turned The Tables On Me; These Foolish Things; I Can't Get Started; Blue Moon; East of the Sun; The Astaire Blues; Tea for Two; Slow Down; Oh, Lady Be Good; Body and Soul; Stompin' at the Savoy; Rough Ridin'; Just One of Those Things; Too Marvelous for Words; But Not For Me; That Made A Difference To Me; Autumn in New York; Pettiford's Tune (Little Boy); You Go To My Head; Thou Swell; Willow Weep for Me; Minor Blues; Pick Yourself Up; Long Ago and Far Away; Love Walked In; I Got Rhythm; A Fine Romance; A Foggy Day; Strike Up the Band; The Man I Love; Let's Do It; It Ain't Necessarily So; I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm; I've Got A Crush On You; Night and Day; Isn't This A Lovely Day?; What Is This Thing Called Love?; Willow Weep For Me; Oh, Lady Be Good; S'Wonderful; Anything Goes; I've Got You Under My Skin; Fascinatin' Rhythm; Cheek to Cheek; I Got It Bad; In A Mellow Tone; I Love You; Somebody Loves Me; I Was Doin' All Right; In the Still of the Night; Every Time We Say Goodbye; Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'; Begin the Beguine; So Near and Yet So Far; Blue Skies; Take the A Train; Sophisticated Lady; Cotton Tail; Prelude to a Kiss; Things Ain't What They Used to Be; Rockin' in Rhythm; Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me; Don't Get Around Much Anymore; John Hardy's Wife; Always; Easter Parade; Alexander's Ragtime Band; The Song is Ended; Say It Isn't So; Remember; If I Had You; How Deep Is The Ocean?; I'm Glad There Is You; Polka Dots and Moonbeams; One for My Baby; I Hear Music; Autumn in New York; I Can't Give You Anything But Love; Spring Is Here; The Things We Did Last Summer; Streets Boogie; Booker T. Blues; Pompton Turnpike; Cherokee; Soft Winds; The Carioca; The Continental; Tea for Two; I Know That You Know; Hallelujah; Yesterdays; You Are Too Beautiful; Isn't It Romantic?; The Sheik of Araby; There'll Be Some Changes Made; Pompton Turnpike; Soft Winds; The Continental; Without A Song; Sometimes I'm Happy; Time On My Hands; More Than You Know; This Can't Be Love; Blue Moon; The Lady is A Tramp; It Might As Well Be Spring; Bewitched; The Way You Look Tonight; Ol' Man River; Can't Help Lovin' That Man; The Song Is You; Lovely to Look At; Smoke Gets in Your Eyes; Bill; Look for the Silver Lining; The Surrey With the Fringe on Top; Lover.
Terry Clarke: It's About Time
by Jerry D'Souza
Drummer Terry Clarke has had a long and illustrious career. Born in Vancouver, Canada, Clarke moved to San Francisco in 1965 to play with John Handy III. Jazz at the time was not an all-encompassing passion, and when the opportunity to play with pop vocal group The Fifth Dimension came about, he took it. Five years ...
